At the port, which has been a point of trade with the whole world for centuries, a special place is given to the music. Once an important center of classical music in Germany, which gave the world some of the greates men like Brems and Mendelssohn, the very Hamburg is the city in which the legendary Beatles began their career. As a witness to the importance of music for the city and its inhabitants, the building of the Philharmonic, which become one of the most renowned of its caracteristics, is rising on the riverside of the Elbe. Hamburg is a city of diverse architecture – from crowded houses with hundreds of channels running through the city, to modern business buildings, it is characterized by a diversity that is omnipresent in the city.